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Thanks to Higgy for pointing this one out to me, it seems we have a new contender in the Gotek firmware land, and this one is open source, which I hope will lead to a lot more improvement over what we have already.

Keir Fraser, not a stranger to the Amiga world, having made stuff like Keirf's Disk Utilities, has released FlashFloppy, a new firmware for STM32F10x based floppy emulators

Seems like it's early days, and I haven't been able to find any more info about it. I am ASSUMING this is compatible with Amiga and Atari ST, also from the existence of a FlashFloppy file selector supporting both those platforms:

Yes, it says so on the git page.
Keir told me to make sure I use his fork with his FW instead, though, for Amiga and Atari ST at least.

I tried getting the necessary files to compile this on my Raspberry Pi linux, but I failed. I didn't even know if it would work to compile on it, it should, but well, no luck for me. Anybody able to post some binaries?

By the way as I said above, Keir himself told me to stick to HIS Selector image to use with his firmware, instead of using the default HxC ones, for Amiga and Atari ST. Spo not sure if the firmware is currently fully compatible with Amiga and Atari ST selectors.

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Originally Posted by Keir

I supply my own build of the amiga selector so please use that. Other platforms use the hxc one.

I'll flash later today if I find a moment, and report. I just don't have an Amiga currently "gutted open" to do tests with, I had the A500 like that for months and I am happy now that I cleaned the mess

^ Fixed Mega link. It worked with Crazy Cars, Giana Sisters, Batman the Movie & Cannon Fodder. Got to do something else so sorry I can't help further tonight. The .HEX in the FlashFloppy.ZIP needs to be converted into a .DFU but the included software in the Installation Software will do this. I had to manually browse to the drivers and install them after the Installation program was installed. Maybe because my Gotek already had Herve's GOTEK firmware on, and not the normal GOTEK. USB stick only needs game ADF's + AUTOBOOT.HFE & HXCSDFE.CFG No need to convert .ADF's. And they can be in folders.

This contains the HEX file to flash to your Gotek, and AUTOBOOT.HFE for Amiga for your USB stick, and a simple HXCSDFE.CFG.

You should use my build of AUTOBOOT.HFE on Amiga (as pointed out it is actually just a patched HxC selector). The HxC selector should work unmodified on other platforms but I haven't tested that myself.

Also worth saying this is early days. I've released it as 0.1alpha for a reason, until yesterday it had only had me mucking with it in limited test scenarios. It's undoubtedly got a suite of bugs in addition to the known limitations: it does not play nicely with other drives yet, only use it as sole drive DF0 please.

I'm interested on feedback on bugs and desired features, and how people like to configure their USB sticks. For example I'm not sure whether HxC-config compatibility was the best use of my time, it seems a lot of people would like to be able to configure packs/sets of games in a plain text config file? Perhaps with a different style of host management software based around that? With the basic firmware almost done now there is a lot of opportunity for experimentation here. The project is open and I'm happy to receive pull requests for features/fixes in the firmware, and also (perhaps even more) assistance on new host software as and when.

Cheers!

Finally, I hope to get some nice space for hosting the downloads, rather than providing cryptic Google Drive links. Perhaps I will look into Github Releases, or get hosted on one of the Amiga websites.

The way to punish it would be to take an image of random files,
and move, and rewrite them, rather than play games,
or even Xcopy disks with expected tracks.
Regardless, it's open source. Within a year, there won't be any other floppy emulator.

The way to punish it would be to take an image of random files,
and move, and rewrite them, rather than play games,
or even Xcopy disks with expected tracks.
Regardless, it's open source. Within a year, there won't be any other floppy emulator.

I don't want to push this alpha version too hard, it definitely has issues, but someone did hit it hard with some image copying, formatting, defragging, in workbench and it stood up far better than the Cortex firmware. I was pleasantly surprised to hear it.

I don't want to push this alpha version too hard, it definitely has issues, but someone did hit it hard with some image copying, formatting, defragging, in workbench and it stood up far better than the Cortex firmware. I was pleasantly surprised to hear it.